Comments on: Declutter Your Home Office – Part 3

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:05:55 +0000

@Jake – Thanks for the recommendation and good luck on the home office reorg!

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:08:27 +0000

I’m glad I came across this blog, it seems to have a lot of good information on it. I’ll be reading more of the articles today (and start reorganizing my home office…). I wanted to briefly recommend a note taking software called NoteScribe. It’s only for Windows, but I figured it might be worth a mention for any Windows users out there. I use it, and it keeps my life (and work) quite organized.

Thanks again for the helpful blog!

Jake

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:38:50 +0000

@Shigella – Glad you found the tips useful.

@John Stack – I don’t understand what you’re implying by “a vote against sending documents out to someone else that you don’t know”, are you implying that the service you link to employs someone we know? Also, what specifically do you consider “low-touch” about the above mentioned services? I would hope that you have some specific examples to substantiate your claims.

By: John Stack

John Stack — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:25:56 +0000

Great Post!

Here is a vote for personal outsourcing and a vote against sending documents out to someone else that you don’t know! Let’s talk not having a printer or scanner whatsoever! Get someone to pick up your paper, scan it and personally return it back to you when its complete!

Also, electronically stored documents are only good when there is some organization to them. Receipts and business documents should be searchable, reportable, and easily categorized! I think that the other solution will work for someone who needs bulk scanning in a low-touch way; however, this is something that literally every ISP will start doing!

By: Shigella

Shigella — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:37:32 +0000

Yep, I too am guilty of still using paper to take down my notes and keep them in an envelop just in case. I have to move away from that old trick, sometimes it is still useful but when I need to find it fast, that’s when the problem starts. Thanks for the helpful tips.

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By: Prasad Thammineni

Prasad Thammineni — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:50:17 +0000

@TOMAS – Thank you so much for the kind words about Pixily. We are very excited about the service and we hope people will like it as much as we do.

Also, I appreciate you bringing my attention to the broken links. I will see what is going on.

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:15:05 +0000

@Prasad Thammineni – Wow, looks like you’ve got a great niche business idea there! BTW, for some reason the permalinks on your blog are redirecting to a ‘404 Not Found’ page but anyone looking for the invitation code can still find it by heading to http://blog.pixily.com/blog/ and scrolling to the end of the page.

By: Prasad Thammineni

Prasad Thammineni — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:02:42 +0000

I have been consciously working to reduce my paper usage and I have employed many of the tips highlighted in this blog.

At work (our startup http://www.pixily.com), we in fact disconnected the printer from the network. If somebody has to print a document, they have to walk up to the printer with their laptop, connect it to their laptop and then print. This has created enough inertia among our employees and has reduced printing considerably and limited it to only most important tasks.

By the way, we are about to go live with Pixily next month. Pixily helps consumers, professionals and small businesses aggregate all their paper and digital documents online. Yes, we digitize all your paper documents and make them searchable. If you are curious, go to http://blog.pixily.com/blog/2008/06/01/what-is-pixily-how-can-i-sign-up/ to find out more about Pixily. If you read the whole blog post, you can find the invitation code for the private-beta.

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:19:10 +0000

@Steven Haddox – Hey Steven, I was considering using Shoeboxed but just got an invite to Evernote so I’ll probably give that a try first since I like the OCR capabilities. Although it does look like Shoeboxed has some nice financial planning features. Would you know if you have to enter the info manually or does the webapp actually extract info from the scans?

@Austin – You know, I’ve actually done the same thing – kindred spirits we are! My only issue is that I had to touch it up a bit with Photoshop since my scan showed up a bit choppy and pixelated – it was probably my old scanner.